10/02/2012

Examining malaria data methodologies

"Given the 1.2 billion dollars by donors to malaria in 2010, is it unreasonable to demand to know with more certainty, how many people are dying from malaria?"

In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Victoria Fan, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and Felix Lam, a malaria research analyst, examine the discrepancies between the WHO's estimated number of malaria deaths worldwide and the data recently released by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). They ask, "Given the 1.2 billion dollars by donors to malaria in 2010, is it unreasonable to demand to know with more certainty, how many people are dying from malaria?" and go on to describe how each group analyzed data to get to their conclusions (2/9).

Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

http://globalhealth.kff.org/

http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2012/February/10/GH-021012-RR-Malaria-Data.aspx

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